Multi-Axis Niche Examination of Ecological Specialization: Responses to Heat, Desiccation and Starvation Stress in Two Species of Pit-Building Antlions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Rotkopf, Ron ^a   Barkae, Erez David ^a   Bar Hanin, Einav ^a   Alcalay, Yehonatan ^a   Ovadia, Ofer ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BODY MASS; CUETA LINEOSA; DESICCATION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HEAT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INSECT; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MRYMELEON HYALINUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPECIES HABITAT; STARVATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DESICCATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HOT TEMPERATURE; INSECTS;

CUETA; MYRMELEON; MYRMELEONTIDAE;

EID: 84870324608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050884     Document Type: Article

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